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Middle School Science Minute

CITIZEN SCIENCE-S’COOL

I WAS RECENTLY READING THE, 2016 ISSUE OF “SCIENCE SCOPE,” A MAGAZINE WRITTEN FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL SCIENCE TEACHERS, PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL SCIENCE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION.

IN THIS ISSUE, I READ THE THE CITIZEN SCIENCE ARTICLE, “CLOUDS IN THE CLASSROOM – CITIZEN SCIENCE GOES TO S’COOL.” IT WAS WRITTEN BY JILL NUGENT. THE ARTICLE DESCRIBES THE PROCESS BY WHICH STUDENTS AND TEACHERS CAN GET INVOLVED IN A CITIZEN SCIENCE PROJECT — “STUDENTS’ CLOUD OBSERVATIONS ON-LINE” (S’COOL). FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT:

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School on Mars

what if that school wasn’t even on this planet? What if it wasn’t governed by any of our nation states? What if we really had the chance to start over, knowing what we no know about the science of learning and the brain?

DeVos’ Michigan schools experiment gets poor grades

The results in Michigan are so disappointing that even some supporters of school choice are critical of the state’s policies.

“The bottom line should be, ‘Are kids achieving better or worse because of this expansion of choice?’” said Michigan State Board of Education President John Austin, a DeVos critic who also describes himself as a strong charter-school supporter. “It’s destroying learning outcomes … and the DeVoses were a principal agent of that.”

The DeVos family efforts to shape school choice policy in Michigan date back at least to 1990, when Dick DeVos was elected to the state school board and Betsy DeVos created a foundation that gave private-school scholarships to low-income families “so that parents could decide where their kids would go to school,” DeVos told Philanthropy Roundtable in 2013.

Standardized Testing Motivation Slogans Courtesy of the Gaokao . . .

So my district put up our NWEA test scores in the hallway for our students to see. It includes signs that read “Move to the right.” I like these motivating statements from China’s Gaokao testing slogans . . .